Hi Wolfgang,
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:44 AM, Wolfgang Denk wd@denx.de wrote:
Dear Graeme,
In message 4F02DA64.60502@gmail.com you wrote:
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One thing comes to mind: it would be nice if we can find a way that the INIT_FUNC definitions behave similar to "weak" functions - if an init_func can be redefined / overwritten / modified by board specific code we eventually have a very nice way to get rid of the related #ifdef's.
Well a lot of the #ifdefs will disappear when the INIT_FUNC macros gets migrated the the corresponding source files as the Makefile logic will take care of things for us
I do have in the back of my mind the 'what if' case of the dependencies needing to be different between two arches or boards, but I really can't think of a case where this would be the case. I added the 'post-req' to the macro to allow an init function to be inserted before an existing function which I think will be the most likely case (initialising on-board hardware such as an FPGA prior to timer initialisation for example)
We'll see how it pans out
Regards,
Graeme